| Regiment | Names | Acts of Courage for which recommended | |------------------|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------| | Royal Engineers | Lieutenant (now Captain) and Brevet Major J. R. M. Chard | For their gallant conduct at the defence of Rorke's Drift, on the occasion of the attack by the Zulus, as recorded against their names, viz.: — | | 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment | Lieutenant (now Captain and Brevet Major) G. Bromhead | | | 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment | Private John Williams | Private John Williams was posted with Private Joseph Williams, and Private William Harrigan, 1st Battalion 24th Regiment, in a distant room of the hospital, which they held for more than an hour, so long as they had a round of ammunition left; as communication was for the time cut off, the Zulus were enabled to advance and burst open the door; they dragged out Private Joseph Williams and two of the patients, and assailed them. Whilst the Zulus were occupied with the slaughter of these men a bull took place, during which Private John Williams, who, with two patients, were the only men now left alive in this ward, succeeded in knocking a hole in the partition, and in taking the two patients into the next ward, where he found Private Hook. | | 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment | Private Henry Hook | These two men together, one man working whilst the other fought and held the enemy at bay with his bayonet, broke through three more partitions, and were thus enabled to bring eight patients through a small window into the inner line of defence. | | 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment | Private William Jones and Private Robert Jones | In another ward, facing the hill, Private William Jones and Private Robert Jones defended the post to the last, until six out of the seven patients it contained had been removed. The seventh, Sergeant Maxwell, 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment, was delirious from fever. Although they had previously dressed him, they were unable to induce him to move. When Private Robert Jones returned to endeavour to carry him away, he found him being stabbed by the Zulus as he lay on his bed. | | 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment | Corporal William Allen and Private Frederick Hitchcock | It was chiefly due to the courageous conduct of these men that communication with the hospital was kept up at all. Holding together at all costs a most dangerous post, raked in reverse by the enemy's fire from the hill, they were both severely wounded, but, their determined conduct enabled the patients to be withdrawn from the hospital, and when incapacitated by their wounds from fighting, they continued, as soon as their wounds had been dressed, to serve out ammunition to their comrades during the night. |

**MEMORANDUM.**

Lieutenant McVille, of the 1st Battalion 24th Foot, on account of the gallant efforts made by him to save the Queen's Colour of his Regiment after the disaster at Isandlwana, and also Lieutenant Coghill, 1st Battalion 24th Foot, on account of his heroic conduct in endeavouring to save his brother officer's life, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the Victoria Cross had they survived.